5 must-read personal development books like Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose by Colin Campbell

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Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose

By: Colin Campbell

4.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A powerful account of one father’s journey through unimaginable grief, offering readers a new visio…

If you liked the personal development plot in Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose by Colin Campbell , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Rare Bird: A Memoir of Loss and Love by Anna Whiston-Donaldson, Glennon Melton

1. Rare Bird: A Memoir of Loss and Love

By: Anna Whiston-Donaldson , Glennon Melton

4.38

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

On an ordinary September day, twelve-year-old Jack is swept away in a freak neighborhood flood. His… read more

Similar categories in Anna Whiston-Donaldson's Rare Bird: A Memoir of Loss and Love book and Colin Campbell's Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Grievers I've come across function within society, and most days it appears pretty seamless. We volunteer at church. We go to school plays. We shop. We cheer from the sidelines. We try to blend in. W…"

-Anna Whiston-Donaldson, Rare Bird: A Memoir of Loss and Love

Cover of The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief by Francis Weller, Michael Lerner

2. The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

By: Francis Weller , Michael Lerner

4.40

Format: 224 pages, ebook

Noted psychotherapist Francis Weller provides an essential guide for navigating the deep waters of … read more

Similar categories in Francis Weller's The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief book and Colin Campbell's Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose

  • counselling
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"Grief keeps the heart flexible, fluid, and open to others."

-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

"Ritual is able to hold the long-discarded shards of our stories and make them whole again. It has the strength and elasticity to contain what we cannot contain on our own, what we cannot face in soli…"

-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

"Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love we carry for wh…"

-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

"To alter the amnesia of our times, we must be willing to look into the face of the loss and keep it nearby. In this way, we may be able to honor the losses and live our lives as carriers of their unf…"

-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

3. The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed

By: Jessica Lahey

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Paul Tough's How Children Succeed and Wendy Mogel's The Blessing of a Skinned K… read more

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4. Troubled

By: Rob Henderson

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Oth… read more

Similar categories in Rob Henderson's Troubled book and Colin Campbell's Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • psychology
"Successful people tell the world they got lucky, then tell their loved ones about the importance of hard work and sacrifice. Critics of successful people tell the world those successful people got lu…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"People don't need motivation; they need self-discipline. Motivation is just a feeling. Self-discipline is: 'I'm going to do this regardless of how I feel.' Seldom do people relish doing something har…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"Mom's friends were worried that their son isn't talking as much as other six-year-olds. They, like many parents, were concerned with how "smart" their kid is. "Should we be reading to him more?" they…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"You should keep your expectations in line with reality. If you view the military as a job, you will be miserable. It's not a job, it's a lot more than that. As long as you wear that uniform, it is yo…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

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5. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

Similar categories in Sloane Crosley's Grief Is for People book and Colin Campbell's Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • self help
"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

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6. A Living Remedy: A Memoir

By: Nicole Chung

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Chung's A Living Remedy: A Memoir book and Colin Campbell's Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"

-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir

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7. The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World

By: Sharon Brous

4.54

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From one of our country’s most prominent rabbis, an inspiring book about the power of community bas… read more

Similar categories in Sharon Brous's The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World book and Colin Campbell's Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose

  • nonfiction
  • self help
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8. Somehow: Thoughts on Love

By: Anne Lamott

3.95

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more

Similar categories in Anne Lamott's Somehow: Thoughts on Love book and Colin Campbell's Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help
"I don’t know"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

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9. Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

By: Henry Winkler

4.14

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply tho… read more

Similar categories in Henry Winkler's Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond book and Colin Campbell's Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"It’s so funny about time - you get into these nice little grooves with people you love, and you think it’ll go on forever. But time goes so fast, and nothing goes on forever."

-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

"If you don't nail your feet to the ground, you can just believe - and you want to believe. It's so enticing. It felt so good. You could just become a gigantic balloon in the Thanksgiving Day parade a…"

-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

Cover of Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding) by Laura Dern

10. Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)

By: Laura Dern

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “As actors, Dern and Ladd have spent decades peeling back layers to re… read more

Similar categories in Laura Dern's Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding) book and Colin Campbell's Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere by Savannah Guthrie

11. Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere

By: Savannah Guthrie

4.36

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Mostly what God does is love you. If we could believe this, really believe this, how different w… read more

Similar categories in Savannah Guthrie's Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere book and Colin Campbell's Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"He doesn't even need words from us. Just a sigh, a tear, or a whimper. What an amazing resource we have in a God who already understands our whole history, our intricate emotional fabric, our every i…"

-Savannah Guthrie, Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere

Cover of Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully by Julie McFadden

12. Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully

By: Julie McFadden

4.50

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

What if we didn’t consider death the worst possible outcome? What if we discussed it honestly, embr… read more

Similar categories in Julie McFadden's Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully book and Colin Campbell's Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life Is Not Okay by Cyndie Spiegel

13. Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life Is Not Okay

By: Cyndie Spiegel

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Bighearted and hopeful. Unflinchingly honest and healing. A profound compendium of intimate, inspir… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • self help
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14. The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days

By: Kate Bowler

4.43

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Warm and witty blessings found within the struggles of our shared humanity, from the New York Times… read more

Similar categories in Kate Bowler's The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days book and Colin Campbell's Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose

  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Blessed are we who choose not to look away from systems that dehumanize, deceive, defame, and distort. We who recognize that thoughts and prayers are NOT enough. We who stand with truth over expedien…"

-Kate Bowler, The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days

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15. The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope

By: Curt Thompson

4.47

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

In the face of personal and global suffering, is it possible to live with hope rather than despair?… read more

Similar categories in Curt Thompson's The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope book and Colin Campbell's Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose

  • counselling
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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16. Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief

By: Joanne Cacciatore

4.42

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

If you love, you will grieve—and nothing is more mysteriously central to becoming fully human. Dr.… read more

Similar categories in Joanne Cacciatore's Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief book and Colin Campbell's Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose

  • personal development
  • memoir
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Whatever comes, we let it be as it is. When we do this, we come to see, in this moment or the next, our emotions always moving. The word emotion has its roots in the Latin movere and emovere meaning …"

-Joanne Cacciatore, Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief

"Whatever comes, we let it be as it is. When we do this, we come to see, in this moment or the next, our emotions always moving. The word emotion has its roots in the Latin movere and emovere meaning …"

-Joanne Cacciatore, Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief

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17. The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

By: Mary-Frances O'Connor

4.19

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"In humans as well, it is because your loved one existed that certain neurons fire together and certain proteins are folded in your brain in particular ways. It is because your loved one lived, and be…"

-Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

"Grief is a heart-wrenchingly painful problem for the brain to solve, and grieving necessitates learning to live in the world with the absence of someone you love deeply, who is ingrained in your unde…"

-Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

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18. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

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19. Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

By: Alua Arthur

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of The Origins of You: How Breaking Family Patterns Can Liberate the Way We Live and Love by Vienna Pharaon

20. The Origins of You: How Breaking Family Patterns Can Liberate the Way We Live and Love

By: Vienna Pharaon

4.43

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From licensed therapist and popular Instagram relationship expert Vienna Phara… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

21. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Our Polyvagal World: How Safety and Trauma Change Us by Stephen W. Porges

22. Our Polyvagal World: How Safety and Trauma Change Us

By: Stephen W. Porges

4.37

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The creator of the Polyvagal Theory explains the principles in simple terms that are accessible to … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief by David Kessler

23. Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief

By: David Kessler

4.43

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking new work, David Kessler—an expert on grief and the coauthor with Elisabeth K… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
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24. Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose

By: Colin Campbell

4.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A powerful account of one father’s journey through unimaginable grief, offering readers a new visio… read more

Similar categories in Colin Campbell's Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose book and Colin Campbell's Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose

  • personal development
  • memoir
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of I Cried to Dream Again: Trafficking, Murder, and Deliverance -- A Memoir by Sara Kruzan

25. I Cried to Dream Again: Trafficking, Murder, and Deliverance -- A Memoir

By: Sara Kruzan

4.39

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

There is perhaps no crime more disturbing than the abuse of a child—and no court cases as upsetting… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Healing the Impact of Loss by Claire Bidwell Smith

26. Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Healing the Impact of Loss

By: Claire Bidwell Smith

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

With this groundbreaking book, discover the critical connections between anxiety and grief—and lear… read more

Similar categories in Claire Bidwell Smith's Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Healing the Impact of Loss book and Colin Campbell's Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose

  • counselling
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of On Grief: Love, Loss, Memory (Atlantic Editions) by Jennifer Senior

27. On Grief: Love, Loss, Memory (Atlantic Editions)

By: Jennifer Senior

4.58

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

The unflinching Pulitzer Prize–winning essay on mourning and recovery in the wake of an inconceivab… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Senior's On Grief: Love, Loss, Memory (Atlantic Editions) book and Colin Campbell's Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose

  • nonfiction
Cover of True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between by Gretchen Whitmer

28. True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between

By: Gretchen Whitmer

4.34

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventi… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Whitmer's True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between book and Colin Campbell's Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The AfterGrief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss by Hope Edelman

29. The AfterGrief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss

By: Hope Edelman

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A validating new approach to the long-term grieving process that explains why we feel "stuck," why … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be by Thomas Lynch

30. The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be

By: Thomas Lynch

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A wry and compassionate selection of essays reflecting on mortals and mortality, from the acclaimed… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Lynch's The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be book and Colin Campbell's Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"The effort to minimize the hurt by minimizing the loss, pretending that a dead body has lost it's meaning or identity, is another tune we whistle past the graveyard. the sad truths I've been taught b…"

-Thomas Lynch, The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be

30 Best nonfiction books like Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose by Colin Campbell

Transform Your Habits

Rare Bird: A Memoir of Loss and Love

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4.38

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Francis Weller , Michael Lerner

4.40

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Rob Henderson

4.26

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3.91

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4.17

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4.58

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